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by zeroname 8y ago
> Allow me to rephrase: that disproves your statement, "nobody would invest millions into figuring out the right arrangement of atoms that cures some disease, if there wasn't a way to profit from that." You really want t
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by zeroname 8y ago
Yes, but Apple didn't take away anything from Microsoft, so where's the connection? Their "users don't care" attitude on software worked out. Pretty much nobody in business is switching over to Mac OS (or iOS) and
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Obviously both can "[figure] out the right arrangement of atoms that cures some disease." How does that not answer your question? I didn't ask a question. > Furthermore, how would 'obviousness' negate a coun
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by zeroname 8y ago
What do you mean? Apple didn't really take a substantial market share from Microsoft. Apple was successful in a market that Microsoft chose to not compete in until it was too late.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Does there ever come a point where they should be normalized? The ideal situation is no tariffs on either side , which is normalized. > for certain situations? For any given economic scenario there's a practical interventi
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by zeroname 8y ago
Obviously I'm talking about private investment, not public funding. Of course these companies use information obtained through public research, they're supposed to , because there's a long process from research to an appro
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by zeroname 8y ago
It's economically beneficial, but not politically expedient.
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by zeroname 8y ago
IP laws also support innovation. Nobody would invest millions into figuring out the right arrangement of atoms that cures some disease, if there wasn't a way to profit from that. At the other end of the spectrum is protecting the &qu
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by zeroname 8y ago
Some of your ancestors stole something from someone, would you like to: A) give up some of your property to an entirely unrelated person B) not do that Choose wisely!
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by zeroname 8y ago
> ...unfavorable trade agreement wich allowed for assymetrical tariffs, etc. Assymmetrical tariffs are more favorable than symmetrical tariffs, something practically every economist agrees on. Also, why insist on exporting more valuabl
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by zeroname 8y ago
> It seems to me that execs understand and take a calculated risk when they choose to do business in various parts of the world. If they cannot make this calculation, they should not be running a company. There's an externality here
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by zeroname 8y ago
> It's attitudes like yours, that seem to equate conflict with aggression I don't. Aggressiveness, especially passive-aggressiveness (like in your original reply) is usually a sign of weakness. > not admitting mistakes with
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by zeroname 8y ago
Shazam doesn't just work on pop music, I've used it successfully on some pretty obscure stuff. It has to have been published "properly" though, which in the day and age of self-publishing directly to the net doesn't
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by zeroname 8y ago
Yes.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Doesn't every freaking mainstream technology suck? I regularly come across rants from significant developers regarding this issue. There probably is no way to prevent this from happening. Because worse is unfortunately better. Web
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Just because something isn't that hard, doesn't mean we don't slip up sometimes. So I'd stand by my assessment. It isn't that hard. I expect it of myself and my team. I still sometimes fail. Then a CoC, being c
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by zeroname 8y ago
> What point are you trying to illustrate? Are you saying I shouldn't have been called out on it? Because I disagree. The fact was, I found the post I replied to annoying, and I replied in a tone that was stronger than it needed to
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Every abuse of a CoC is by definition public That is untrue. > But overall I have seen a lot more whinging reactions along the lines of "how dare you put your politics here!" than actual examples of abuses. That is besides
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Behaving like a decent human being isn't that hard. It can be quite hard to live up to everyone's standards of "decency". You just failed to do it. > I shouldn't respond to hyperbolic language with the lik
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by zeroname 8y ago
I understand that. Hence my question, what difference does it make ? Are we going to investigate if Blacks are "full of shit" when they argue "for affirmative action"? What are we supposed to do with that information? T
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by zeroname 8y ago
You just said it yourself, they need to have sufficient power . Following one of these CoCs to the letter, I could levee infringements against practically anyone, even if I only made minor contributions.
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by zeroname 8y ago
This particular CoC goes much further than policing harassment.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Because behaving like a decent human being is that hard, isn't it? If a code of conduct hurts your feelings that much maybe you're just not cut out for collaborative work. Who gets to decide what's "decent"? Do
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by zeroname 8y ago
What difference does it make? "Affirmative Action" vs. "Meritocracy" are principles. "White people are in favor of it" isn't a valid argument for or against either. The fact of the matter is that through &
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by zeroname 8y ago
My two cents: It's a generation of programmers raised on the Web who think web technology is good because that's what they know . They believe in "open standards" and "design by committee" and nonsense like
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by zeroname 8y ago
> It may be less verbose but it fails completely to render anything if javascript is not enabled (in the browser) on the domain the scripts are to be loaded from. Bad accessibility, bad degredation, bad practice for the web. I call BS on
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Most Americans would find a job loss to be a total financial disaster. Yeah, but probably not all those Googlers that feel like they need to be both activists and work in Silicon Valley.
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by zeroname 8y ago
Mainland China has education all backwards, children get tons of pressure during primary and secondary education, to the point of them commiting suicide. Then, when it's about university education, it's all business. Parents pay g
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This would be illegal in many economies,is grossly unfair and probably racist. It's actually not illegal to not accept somebody based on them having a degree from a university of poor renown. It's called "qualification
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by zeroname 8y ago
Nobel prices come in lumps, as Feynman would say. Missing out on a just one lump can skew that graph significantly. Going back in time, both the German and UK graphs have points where one could've come to the same conclusion, except th

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